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Does your high school age son or daughter sail competitively?
I'm fortunate that my 16 year old enjoys the ISSA high school sailing circuit. Granted, we don't travel the country but our 6-8 regattas a semester are great fun. We're on coastal Mississippi where there are seven teams and organized high school sailing is only six years old.
Plus, I'm living vicariously through his sailing experiences!
Great to see! Our son raced with us throughout his teens, has continued to sail since. He and his family are on their third boat that they actively race and cruise.
In addition this year in June he was introduced to International Sailing, on a crew that took third place in the traditionals at the 6 meter Worlds in La Trinite-sur-mer, France.
My eldest daughter helped FOUND the high school sailing team here. They went to the Board of Ed presentation in drysuits. We thoroughly enjoyed going to regattas all over the state, competing against teams from both public and private schools. The local yacht club supports the team (and several others, btw) as a way of building community relations AND possible new members. The team is still going strong, ten years later. ISSA is a great resource. High School Sailing is a blast.
Both our kids raced, starting at age 11 then aging out at 18. Prior to that they raced or cruised with us on the big boat. Today they are both college grads, off working, but still find time to cruise with us.
The fun thing is they meets friends all around the country they had raced with or against. It's a great sport that can be enjoyed for a lifetime.
My 3 kids all sailed Optimist Dinghy up until the age of 14-15. They are now aged 17, 18 and 21. After the Optimist dinghy, the boys started with Laser Dingy, while my daughter, the 17 year old, started to only sail the boats the sea scouts have, (24 feet weekend sailor, 40 feet Colin Archer and the likes).
While saililng the dinghy's, we used to travel all over the country , joining competitions and training every other weekend from Mars/April to November.
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